You'll also see how I used these strategies to take my site from zero to over 449,000 unique visitors per month :
Backlinko – Users – September 2021
Now comes the best part: all of these strategies still work great today.
So, here are 27 ways to drive traffic to your website:
1. The "reverse" guest post
Here's how it works: Most people who read your guest post usually skip the author bio section.
I can't blame them... in many db center.uk cases the author bio is buried at the bottom of the page, like in this case:
author bio
This is a big problem: if people don’t see the link in your bio, they won’t visit your site.
Luckily, there is a simple solution to this problem: the “reverse” guest post.
Here is the step-by-step procedure:
1. First, write a guest post as you normally would.
2. Then, insert “helpful resources” sections into your guest post.
These sections will link to 2-3 valuable resources on the topic you just covered.
Here's an example:
additional resources
3. Finally, include YOUR content among the "useful resources".
For example, here's a guest post I published a while ago:
Brian Dean guest post
Here I have strategically linked my content as one of the "resources to consult":
contextual link
And that link brought me 78% more traffic than my author bio link.
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Really fantastic!
2. Rework and update old blog posts
This simple strategy brought me 50.95% more organic traffic in 7 days:
